Category Archives: Purim

In some communities, it may feel like “keeping up with the Greenbergs” requires wasteful quantities of cellophane, ribbon, and styrofoam for your mishloach manot packages! But regardless of your community, you can create healthy, earth-friendly, beautiful and economical mishloach manot … Continue reading →

by Rabbi Akiva Gersh Purim comes at an auspicious time in the Hebrew calendar. Falling on the full moon in the month of Adar, when it is not a leap year, it occurs exactly one month, one cycle of the … Continue reading →

Purim celebrates unity and community. We give one another gifts of food and distribute money to the poor to remember how we were rescued from Haman’s plot to destroy the Jewish people by pulling together in three days of communal fasting, … Continue reading →